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News in Brief
Article • October 15, 2022 • from CLN November, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arkansas: A Mulberry police officer and two sheriff’s deputies from Crawford County were suspended after a video surfaced appearing to show them beating a man suspected of making violent threats. Maine Public Radio reported that the three officers were videoed by a bystander as they held …
News in Brief
Article • September 15, 2022 • from CLN October, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On August 4, 2022, the Vincent City Council voted to fully dissolve the city’s police force after racist text messages by a top officer were discovered, CNN reported. The city is home to about 2,000 residents and until the vote by the council, had just …
Woman Raped on the Street in French Quarter, Police Unresponsive as Bystander Pleads for Them To Help Victim
Article • August 20, 2022
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Police
Woman Raped on the Street in French Quarter, Police Unresponsive as Bystander Pleads for Them To Help Victim by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On the night of July 26, 2022, an unconscious Black female was raped on the corner of Toulouse and Royal in New Orleans’ French …
News in Brief
Article • August 15, 2022 • from CLN September, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Canada: Techdirt reported that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”), a division of that country’s federal law enforcement akin to the FBI, used malware to spy on people’s personal communications. The report came after the RCMP admitted to doing so in the summer of 2022. The …
Fifth Circuit Affirms Habeas Relief and New Trial Based on Counsel’s Failure to Interview State’s Key Eyewitness in Murder Case
Article • May 1, 2022 • from CLN May, 2022
Filed under: Pre-Trial Restraint, Eyewitness Testimony, Appeal
Fifth Circuit Affirms Habeas Relief and New Trial Based on Counsel’s Failure to Interview State’s Key Eyewitness in Murder Case by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Finding that defense counsel’s failure to interview the State’s key eyewitness in a Louisiana murder case constituted ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. …
News in Brief
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: Techdirt reports that police in Brookside have routinely violated the law in traffic enforcement. By early February 2022, it was clear that the local police department in the small town had been racking up staggering amounts of income in traffic fines, receiving more than $600,000 …
Head of State Police Admits Agency Broke the Law Sanitizing Top Leaders’ Cell Phones
Article • March 12, 2022
Filed under: Searches - Cellphones/Computers/Internet, Police/Govt Misconduct
Head of State Police Admits Agency Broke the Law Sanitizing Top Leaders’ Cell Phones by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman Baton Rouge, LA — In an interview with the WBRZ Investigative Unit Feb. 18, State Police Colonel Lamar Davis admitted his agency erased the cell phones of top leaders during …
Bartie v. Lasalle Corrections, LA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2022
Brief • March 10, 2022
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Bartie v. Lasalle Corrections, LA, Complaint, Wrongful Death, 2022 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA JENNIFER BARTIE o/b/o HER DECEASED SON JAVON KENNERSON, Plaintiff, VERSUS LASALLE CORRECTIONS, L.L.C., LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONS, SECRETARY JAMES M. LEBLANC, CATAHOULA CORRECTIONAL CENTER, SHERIFF TONEY EDWARDS, SHERMAN FORD, JEREMY …
News in Brief
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: On December 21, 2021, two former police officers in West Blocton, Alabama, were arrested and charged with sexual assault. According to WBRC, a news station serving Birmingham, the Tuscaloosa Police Department announced that the former officers, Craig Baird Arnold, 49, and Brian Keith Whatley, 50, …
Concealed Videos Expose Pattern of Abuse by Louisiana State Police
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Media
Concealed Videos Expose Pattern of Abuse by Louisiana State Police by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins  Increasing attention to excessive police force has hopscotched across the country in recent years as one city after another found itself in the spotlight for incidents of police brutality that were caught on film …
DEA Continues to Seize Money Without Proof of Criminality
Article • February 15, 2022 • from CLN March, 2022
Filed under: Forfeiture, Police/Govt Misconduct, Drug Laws/Offenses
DEA Continues to Seize Money Without Proof of Criminality by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian  Kermit Warren is the latest victim of unconscionable governmental abuses of the civil asset forfeiture laws. The Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) is again in the news for seizing cash from a citizen without any …
FBI Gives Green Light for Use of Rapid DNA Solution in Booking Stations
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
Filed under: DNA Testing/Samples
FBI Gives Green Light for Use of Rapid DNA Solution in Booking Stations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Applied Biosystems Rapid HIT ID DNA Booking System was approved by the FBI for use by law enforcement booking stations to automatically process, upload, and search DNA reference …
News in Brief
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Arizona: Claims for $300,000 were filed in September 2021 against the city of Chandler, Arizona, in advance of a lawsuit planned by two activists arrested during a protest against police brutality six months earlier. According to a report by the Phoenix New Times, the men, Darien …
“If Everybody’s White, There Can’t Be Any Racial Bias”: The Disappearance of Hispanic Drivers From Traffic Records
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Traffic stop
“If Everybody’s White, There Can’t Be Any Racial Bias”: The Disappearance of Hispanic Drivers From Traffic Records by Richard Webster In Louisiana, law enforcement agencies have been accused of targeting Hispanic drivers in traffic stops and identifying them as white on tickets. Misidentification makes it impossible to track racial bias, …
News in Brief
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by Alabama: A former Alabama cop convicted of murdering a mentally ill and suicidal man in his own home reported to a state prison in Montgomery on September 6, 2021, to begin serving a 25-year sentence he received for the crime, according to Huntsville TV station WAFF. …
SCOTUS Holds Ramos’ Unanimous Jury Requirement Is New Procedural Rule and Announces No New Procedural Rule Applies Retroactively on Federal Collateral Review
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
Filed under: Procedural Default/Error, Guideline Amendment/Variances and Retroactivity
SCOTUS Holds Ramos’ Unanimous Jury Requirement Is New Procedural Rule and Announces No New Procedural Rule Applies Retroactively on Federal Collateral Review by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of the United States held that its landmark decision issued on April 20, 2020, in Ramos v. Louisiana, 140 …
Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Reply Brief, Wrongful Death, 2021
Brief • October 1, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Reply Brief, Wrongful Death, 2021 Case: 20-30739 Document: 00516039541 Page: 1 Date Filed: 10/01/2021 No. 20-30739 IN THE United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ERIE MOORE, JR.; TAMARA GREEN; TIFFANY ROBINSON, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LASALLE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.L.C., INCORRECTLY NAMED AS LASALLE CORRECTIONS …
Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Appeal, Wrongful Death, 2021
Brief • August 27, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Death
Moore v. Lasalle Management, LA, Appeal, Wrongful Death, 2021 Case: 20-30739 Document: 00515998529 Page: 1 Date Filed: 08/27/2021 Case No. 20-30739 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT ERIE MOORE, JR.; TAMARA GREEN; TIFFANY ROBINSON, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. LASALLE MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.L.C., Incorrectly named as LaSalle Corrections …
News in Brief
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California: Five Southern California cops were placed on leave in June 2021 after a video surfaced showing them attacking suspects, according to reports by the Washington Post. On June 10, 2021, four Glendale police officers went on paid leave while an investigation was opened into their response to …
Two T-shirts Cost Louisiana Man 20 Years
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Filed under: U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Racial Profiling, Theft
Two T-shirts Cost Louisiana Man 20 Years by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Guy Frank first became involved with Louisiana’s criminal justice system in 1975 at age 22. Over the next quarter century, Frank would be arrested 36 times and would be convicted several times for theft and possession of …
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